January 30, 2018

HTC Vive Unity Tutorial

Welcome to our Unity VR tutorial for Steam VR and the HTC Vive! In this set of VR tutorials, we’re going to cover setting up HTC Vive for VR development, using the HTC Vive controller, interacting with objects in VR and several other topics used for creating an HTC Vive Unity application. Each tutorial is focused on VR development fundamentals to help you learn how to make virtual reality games and applications of your own! We’ve divided it into 7 sections:

In this section we’ll cover Steam VR tools and other useful HTC Vive VR development resources that will help you make virtual reality applications.

For this tutorial we were using Unity 5.5.1f1 and Steam VR plugin for Unity – v1.1.1. Visit the GitHub page to download the project if you’d like it to follow along with. You can make your way through the tutorial without it, but it will make it easier for following along. Get started with Section One: Introduction and Setup!

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